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	Dialectician (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A dialectician is a philosopher or similar thinker who views the world in terms of complementary opposites and the interactions thereof.
		Dialecticians sometimes refer to this as 'the negation of the negation,' meaning that as soon as the contradiction between thesis and antithesis is resolved by synthesis, the fact that a new thesis has emerged gives rise in turn to a new antithesis and therefore another contradiction.
		Historically, dialecticians and dialectical thought have been most prevalent under Marxist regimes, as the philosophical aspects of Marxism are based on a modification of Hegelian dialectic.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/d/di/dialectician.html (278 words)

	Dialectician - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A dialectician is a philosopher who views the world in terms of complementary opposites and the interactions thereof.
		Dialecticians sometimes refer to this process as "the negation of the negation," meaning that as soon as the contradiction between thesis and antithesis is resolved by synthesis, the fact that a new thesis has emerged gives rise to a new antithesis and therefore another contradiction.
		Historically, dialecticians and dialectical thought have been primarily associated with Marxism, as the philosophical grounding of Marxism is based on a materialist interpretation of Hegelian dialectic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dialectician (271 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Peter Abelard
		Dialectician, philosopher, and theologian, born 1079; died 1142.
		It consisted in placing before the student the reasons pro and contra, on the principle that truth is to be attained only by a dialectical discussion of apparently contradictory arguments and authorities.
		In the problem of Universals, which occupied so much of the attention of dialecticians in those days, Abelard took a position of uncompromising hostility to the crude nominalism of Roscelin on the one side, and to the exaggerated realism of William of Champeaux on the other.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01036b.htm (2243 words)

	International Catholic University: 32.12
		The dialectician, we saw, wants to defend his side and attack the other, but he may be pitted against a dialectician who is doing the same thing.
		Second, because the dialectician and rhetorician have different purposes for their activities, they appeal to different kinds of audiences and use different kinds of arguments.
		That is, the discourse of the dialectician about the existence of God is addressed to men who are relatively wise, men who have a philosophical inclination and some philosophical experience.
	home.comcast.net /~icuweb/c03212.htm (3898 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Topics by Aristotle
		Now so far as the selection of his ground is concerned the problem is one alike for the philosopher and the dialectician; but how to go on to arrange his points and frame his questions concerns the dialectician only: for in every problem of that kind a reference to another party is involved.
		Not so with the philosopher, and the man who is investigating by himself: the premisses of his reasoning, although true and familiar, may be refused by the answerer because they lie too near the original statement and so he foresees what will follow if he grants them: but for this the philosopher does not care.
		To formulate a proposition is to form a number of things into one-for the conclusion to which the argument leads must be taken generally, as a single thing-whereas to formulate an objection is to make one thing into many; for the objector either distinguishes or demolishes, partly granting, partly denying the statements proposed.
	classics.mit.edu /Aristotle/topics.8.viii.html (6472 words)

	Archive \| January 22, 2001 \| The Democrat dialectic of class and race
		Their attitude, that of the classic dialectician, is victory at all cost, and the Republic, along with the fabric and cohesiveness of our society, be damned.
		The sole concern of the dialectician is the emotionally driven, irrational, mobilizing politics of class conflict.
		Attorney General designate John Ashcroft also must be portrayed, by the dialecticians, as a racist, on the flimsy evidence that he opposed the nomination of Missouri Judge Ronnie White, who happens to be Black, to the federal bench.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0101demrace.htm (857 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| On Sophistical Refutations by Aristotle
		He, then, is a dialectician who regards the common principles with their application to the particular matter in hand, while he who only appears to do this is a sophist.
		These, then, are the types of sophistical refutations: and that it belongs to the dialectician to study these, and to be able to effect them, is not difficult to see: for the investigation of premisses comprises the whole of this study.
		As for showing that the answerer is committing some fallacy, and drawing his argument into paradox-for this was the second item of the sophist's programme-in the first place, then, this is best brought about by a certain manner of questioning and through the question.
	classics.mit.edu /Aristotle/sophist_refut.2.2.html (4629 words)

	Ancient Skepticism
		Couissin has popularized the notion that Arcesilaus is a dialectician who defends skepticism, not because he endorses it, but merely as a reductio ad absurdum of the Stoic point of view.
		According to the latter interpretation, Carneades is a dialectician rather than a sceptic, and his achievement is not a sceptical philosophy but an ingenious ability to argue for (and more frequently against) any point of view.
		Any philosopher is likely to act as a dialectician at some time or other, for considering hypothetical positions and using them to argue against others is an integral part of philosophical exchange.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/spr1998/entries/skepticism-ancient (10451 words)

	Ancient Skepticism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On this interpretation, Carneades was a dialectician, and not committed to skepticism as a positive philosophical doctrine.
		Carneades' achievement is, on this account, not a positively skeptical philosophy but a negative skepticism which incorporates both a dialectical ability to argue against prevailing points of view, and a disinclination to think one needed any positive philosophical views in order to live a satisfactory life.
		It is difficult to decide between the claim that Carneades adopted a positive skepticism and the claim he was a pure dialectician committed to a negative skepticism, and the arguments that come down to us could have been intended in either way.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/skepticism-ancient (9224 words)

	Nietzsche: Twilight of the Idols (excerpts)
		Wherever authority still forms part of good bearing, where one does not give reasons but commands, the dialectician is a kind of buffoon: one laughs at him, one does not take him seriously.
		As a dialectician, one holds a merciless tool in one's hand; one can become a tyrant by means of it; one compromises those one conquers.
		The dialectician leaves it to his opponent to prove that he is no idiot: he makes one furious and helpless at the same time.
	www.praxeology.net /twilight.htm (3263 words)

	A George Santayana Home Page: LAW & GOVERNMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The sincere dialectician, the genuine moralist, must stand upon human, Socratic ground.
		The liberal dialectician has the gift of conversation; he does not pretend to legislate from the throne of Jehovah about the course of affairs, but asks the ingenuous heart to speak for itself, guiding and checking it only in its own interest.
		The result is to express a given nature and to cultivate it; so that whenever any one possessing such a nature is born into the world he may use this calculation, and more easily understand and justify his mind.
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		In I.3.6, Plotinus states that “moral philosophy derives from dialectic on its contemplative side, but adds the virtuous dispositions and the exercises that produce them” and that one cannot be “wise and a dialectician” without the lower virtues, which “apply reasoning to particular experiences and actions”.
		In this paper, I shall be considering the philosophical and ethical implications of a particular set of exercises that Plotinus proposes we should follow, which involve metaphorical images deriving from geometry or mathematics.
		This practice is central to Plotinus’ understanding of philosophy as a way of life rather than an abstract inquiry that could be conducted independently of the experience and point of view of the individual subject.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/04mtg/abstracts/VASSILOPOULOU.html (355 words)

	Moral Philosophy 7
		And that could not be unless he considered them in virtue of their sharing in a certain unity.
		So the dialectician is not a philosopher; he is a logician, and if through dialectic he approaches the real and knows it after a certain manner (in terms of opinion), still he never achieves knowledge (science) or philosophy.
		The dialectician transformed into a philosopher and sage has been promoted to the position of confidant of God.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/jmoral07.htm (7465 words)

	Dialectic, Which is Which
		The skill of a dialectician was measured by his dexterity at maneuvering his companion into denying what he had previously affirmed.
		The real distinction between dialectician and demonstrator is the source of their premises, but once these are chosen it makes no difference in the production of a syllogism.
		Identifying dialectic with formal logic and reasoning is further complicated by numerous understandings and definitions of both logic and reason that have accrued over the centuries.
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	20th WCP: Philosophy and Dialogue: Plato’s Unwritten Doctrines from a Hermeneutical Point of View
		Even one of his works is wholly dedicated to that theme — Cratylus —, and there it can be seen that language is neither pure nature nor complete artifact.
		The discourse about the whole belongs to the dialectician, that is, to the philosopher, and in this discourse are found truth and falseness.
		The dialectician knows, due to his ability to answer and to distinguish between authentic answers and seeming ones.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciRodr.htm (2141 words)

	Dial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kung-sun Lung was the person who represented the main thoughts of this school, but only a part of his writing has been preserved, others were lost.
		Dialectician (Ming Chia in Chinese) equals the logic and epistemology today.
		The most famous theory of Dialectician is the Discourse on a White Horse.
	library.thinkquest.org /19053/comparison/dial.htm (225 words)

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	Quotes.January 2006
		He who is about to ask questions must, first of all, choose the ground from which he must make his attack; secondly, he must formulate his questions and arrange them separately in his own mind; thirdly and lastly, he must go on to address them to another person.
		As far as the choice of ground goes, the philosopher and the dialectician are making a similar inquiry, but the subsequent arrangement of material and the framing of questions are the peculiar province of the dialectician; for such a proceeding always involves a relation with another party.
		There is so little of naïve inconsequence in (Adam) Smith's distinction between propriety and merit that it enables him to give an exceedingly sophisticated -and exceedingly modern- solution of the question as to whether we approve of anything but the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
	www.sc.ehu.es /ilwlaanj/Quotes/qjanuary06.htm (437 words)

	McLuhan Studies Issue 4: Francis Bacon's Theory of Communication and Media
		He thought of himself as a grammarian, not a dialectician (philosopher), and as engaged in restoring the wisdom of the Ancients, not in founding scientific novelty.
		His significance in his own eyes, as well as in the eyes of his age, was that of the man who cast out the stream-lined grammars of the dialecticians of the schools and who restored the full discipline as understood by St. Jerome, the pupil of the great Donatus.
		Just as Bacon was later to claim in attacking the dialecticians, St. Augustine says arts and knowledge are for use, for the relief of man’s estate; and, as Bacon freely admits, the greatest art is theology, since it is for the relief of man’s spiritual estate.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /mcluhan-studies/v1_iss4/1_4art1.htm (2794 words)

	treas.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		the dialectician of our day has no adequate theory of man. Lacking such a theory, he of course cannot find a place for rhetoric, which is the most humanistic of all the disciplines.
		Understanding followed by actualization seems to be the order of creation, and there is no need for the role of rhetoric to be misconceived.
		The pure dialectician is left in the theoretical position of the non-lover, who can attain understanding but who cannot add impulse to truth (21).
	www2.dsu.nodak.edu /users/jtallmon/treas.htm (1224 words)

	dialectic.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Aristotle's Topics is explicitly concerned with formalizing the first set of rules for disputations and the label, "dialectician" is ascribed almost exclusively to competitors in mental gymnastics.
		However, a close reading of the text discloses how carefully Aristotle distinguishes between the spirit of competition and the spirit of inquiry; between argument for the sake of learning and argument for the sake of intellectual exercise.
		The manner in which human beings intuit is the end of the intellectual road.
	www2.dsu.nodak.edu /users/jtallmon/dialectic.htm (606 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John of Paris
		There he taught philosophy and theology, and obtained the degree of Master of Theology.
		He was endowed with great ability, was the most subtle dialectician of the age, possessed great literary and linguistic attainments, and was considered one of the best theologians of the university.
		Some ten of his works on theology, physics, and metaphysics, still exist in manuscript; two others, "De Antichristo" and "De modo existendi corporis Christi in sacramento altaris", appeared in print centuries after his death.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08475b.htm (388 words)

	The New Yorker : online : filmfile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Despite his evident affection for even the most benighted of the villagers, Sembene, eighty-two years old and the first internationally acclaimed African filmmaker, seems to flatter the Western notions of progress that are making inroads.
		Yet beware of smugness: Sembene is a dialectician.
		A pair of matched shots of processions—one of water bearers with tubs on their heads, another of the finely robed elders haughtily convening to pass judgment on the girls' protector—shows that the village's deepest division is not between reason and superstition or men and women but—there as everywhere—between those who toil and those who profit.
	www.newyorker.com /online/filmfile/articles/C05FD8F97B6CB6BD0068B152 (241 words)

	Archive \| December 4, 2000 \| Democrat dialectic
		Moral principals, intrinsically understood by most of us, are only to be applied when the opposition falls short.
		The dialectician himself is not constrained by such quaint prejudices as morality.
		The only moral good, to the dialectician, is success.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/1200dialectic.htm (706 words)

	CRATYLUS by Plato, Part 04
		Then the work of the carpenter is to make a rudder, and the pilot has to direct him, if the rudder is to be well made.
		And the work of the legislator is to give names, and the dialectician must be his director if the names are to be rightly given?
		I cannot answer you, Socrates; but I find a difficulty in changing my opinion all in a moment, and I think that I should be more readily persuaded, if you would show me what this is which you term the natural fitness of names.
	www.greekmythology.com /Books/Classic/plato/cratylus_04.html (738 words)

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